I Wear: Independence Sari
Independence Day fell close to a weekend this year. And it was also a sunny, dry day in the middle of a wet August. I took the opportunity to pull out a garment that I added to my wardrobe on another Independence Day four years ago – the sari.
I won’t talk about all the merits of the sari and how it suits Indian weather and body structures. But I will say that it gets better and easier with practice. I’m almost entirely sari-normalised now in that I don’t consider it a special garment to be brought out only among fanfare and tripped around in awkwardly. I reach for a sari as easily as I reach for a pair of trousers or a favorite top. It does tend to reduce in the monsoon because of the filthy city I live in and the fact that I prefer cottons which don’t dry as easily.
But here’s the look that it only took me 20 minutes to get on, right before I went out on a family dinner for Independence Day!
I Wear:
- Red and white cotton saree: Bengal cotton
- Lace croptop: Lokhandwala market
- Painted wooden earrings: Bangalore airport
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